Color
#afb40e
#afb40ergb(175, 180, 14)hsl(62, 86%, 38%)oklch(0.741 0.161 111.8)Colors that go with #afb40e
Charcoal, Blue and Dark Olive Green lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #afb40e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #afb40e, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #afb40e in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #afb40e: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Wikipedia's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #afb40e: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and PostHog's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #afb40e in 4 real palettes, including Disney's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #afb40e: 5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Scale AI's brand system, as the lead colour.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #afb40e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #afb40e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #afb40e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.36:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #afb40e as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #afb40e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/afb40e-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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